Women of Georgia — Nino Bluashvili, 21

‘Although my father was in the military, we never discussed this topic and I never had any other con­nec­tion with it in the past. I rarely saw green uniforms at home, either. At first, I was enrolled at the Faculty of Human­i­ties at Tbilisi State Uni­ver­si­ty, then I switched to jour­nal­ism. I was in my first year when one of my friends began studying at the National Defence Academy. I really enjoyed the stories that my friend used to tell me about the academy.’

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